SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Marketing leaders can gain a competitive advantage by executing a high value exercise Develop a Persona Ecosystem. For marketing leaders tasked with acquiring new customers this is the most valuable exercise you will perform all year. Dive in head first to enhance your 2013 Marketing Plan. But this is only half the equation.

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Exercises Lead Scoring Lead Rank Marketing 310

Sales Gravy

MARCH 25, 2025

Hes already tried a variety of channels, including inside sales, social media, and email, but is struggling to ramp up both volume and quality. Why a Multi-Channel Strategy Matters Theres rarely a single magic trick that opens the floodgates of perfect leads. Offer timely webinars on pain points you see trending in your market.

Ideal Customer Profile 88

Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead B2B Top of Funnel 88

SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

These are the decision-makers you need to access. This is where Content Marketing meets Social Selling. Research your customer’s entire network to find the decision-makers. The Customer Decision-makers. Identify all the decision-makers within the account. Large scale targeting.

LinkedIn 335

LinkedIn Pipeline Decision Maker Referrals 335

DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 23, 2018

We hear a lot about sales and marketing alignment: How important it is for B2B, and how so few of us are doing it right. SALES: Marketing leads are crap. MARKETING: Sales is lazy. MARKETING: Maybe if you actually followed up the same day. Hyper-focus on marketing-qualified leads. Rolls eyes.] Tag-team at events.

Lead Rank 257

Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Scoring Top of Funnel 257

Zoominfo

JUNE 26, 2020

Traditionally, marketing plans lay out these steps, but we need to dig a little deeper. This is where a go-to-market (GTM) strategy comes in. What is a Go-to-Market Strategy? Evaluating the resources used on customers (old and new) within marketing and product development teams will help with overall GTM execution.

Ideal Customer Profile 246

Ideal Customer Profile Buyer Persona Strategy Marketing 246

Zoominfo

AUGUST 6, 2024

Sales team success often hinges on the quantity and quality of leads routed from marketing campaigns and organic channels. Lead capture software is a vital tool that enables companies to identify, collect, and manage potential customer information across various channels.

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Lead Capture Software Software Sales Qualified Lead 130

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Not too long ago, we compiled a list of top-notch YouTube channels for HR and recruitment professionals. Now, on to the ultimate guide to the YouTube channels producing the best sales content today! On Jeb’s YouTube channel you’ll find video content related to everything from sales leadership to women in sales. Go check it out!

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Channels Face-to-face Video Hubspot 187

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 27, 2013

The competition is clamoring for your customers and your piece of the market. You can then build messaging that resonates with decision makers inside your target accounts. Decision Makers - Once you know your target audience, know the market problems of your buyers. Have you checked your marketing strategy?

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Competition Ideal Customer Profile Top of Funnel Decision Maker 267

Zoominfo

JUNE 27, 2018

In today’s digital era, innovative marketing tactics have begun to overtake the traditional methods that have worked for years. Take influencer marketing for example. Keep reading for some key insights into influencer marketing– how effective it can be, what platforms to use, and much more! How effective is influencer marketing?

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Influencer Marketing Social Media Scale 202

Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 25, 2021

as this channel has become saturated. Research shows on average there are 6-10 decision makers and it’s typical for most sales people to only speak to one person. Automate : There are more and more tools on the market that remove the need for sales people to do non-selling tasks.

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Territories Compensation Scale Decision Maker 396

Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

One major key to success in sales is a salesperson’s ability to reach decision makers. Salespeople who reach THE decision maker are 341% more likely to close the business than those who fail to reach the decision maker. Objective Management Group (OMG) has assessed nearly 2.4

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Decision Maker Insurance Insurance Call-back 201

Zoominfo

JULY 27, 2023

Businesses in virtually every industry are being pushed to modernize their go-to-market strategy, with a premium on the data-driven, automation-enabled convergence of sales, marketing, and operations. Sales and marketing leadership need to align on: The business outcomes that your ABM strategy will achieve.

Account Based Marketing 246

Account Based Marketing Scale Data Strategy 246

Zoominfo

MARCH 29, 2018

As a marketer, your results are directly dependent on strategy and budget. But—to gain buy-in from executives and decision makers, you must be able to confidently demonstrate your ability to contribute to the company’s bottom line. You can’t make sense of your marketing reports—or even worse, you don’t have marketing reports.

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ROI Marketing Scale Campaigns 219

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The Salesforce AppExchange is a marketplace that makes it easy for busy IT and go-to-market professionals to find and leverage cloud computing and software solutions that work with Salesforce s industry-leading CRM tools and services.

SalesForce 130

SalesForce Top of Funnel Demand Generation Agencies Intent Signal 130

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Let’s face it—it’s not easy to build a perfect marketing team. A comprehensive marketing strategy includes a number of different tactics and initiatives—which means your team must include members with a wide variety of skills. However, only 23% of B2B marketers claim to have a customer-centric organizational structure ( source ).

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Marketing Social Media B2B Analysis 187

SalesFuel

DECEMBER 20, 2024

One way to improve this situation is to use the best B2B market intelligence. The B2B Marketing Outlook Surveyed business leaders also have downgraded their performance scores on customer acquisition and brand value in the past six months. Market Intelligence This is great news. But there's always room for improvement.

B2B 59

B2B Top of Funnel Marketing Decision Maker 59

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

No matter how many times we’re told email marketing is dead, the channel continues to be an effective way to generate revenue. In fact, studies show that email marketing has a 4400% return on investment ( source ). Enter email list segmentation—the key to successful email marketing. Unfamiliar with the term? Keep reading.

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Segment Email Marketing Marketing Buyer Persona 219

Zoominfo

MARCH 6, 2019

There are more answers to that question than ever before, thanks to the variety of tools and channels at a modern marketer’s disposal. But, regardless of the products you sell or the space you sell into, nothing sways a person’s buying decisions quite like a recommendation from their trusted peers. What is referral marketing?

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Referrals Ideal Customer Profile Marketing Incentive 197

Zoominfo

JANUARY 15, 2021

The world has been stirred up by a global pandemic, most of us are still working from home, and digital marketing strategies have become a critical part of every company’s survival. When it comes down to it, one of the most important things marketing organizations are tasked with is generating marketing qualified leads (MQLs).

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Paid Content Lead Generation Lead Rank Lead Scoring 264

Zoominfo

MARCH 4, 2021

You want to be on top in your market, but it’s more difficult when you’re pitted against enterprises. Some of the easiest methods of lead generation include increasing traffic to your social media channels and website. Develop email marketing campaigns – A one-size-fits-all approach to emailing leads is inefficient.

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Lead Generation Ideal Customer Profile Lead Scoring Lead Rank 246

Pointclear

JANUARY 9, 2014

Outbound calling is interruption marketing. Here’s what they had to say: Ardath Albee | Marketing Interactions. Why marketers refuse to acknowledge this reality is beyond me, but it’s also a reason that salespeople continue to ignore the leads sent to them by marketing. Marketing is a variable expense.

Lead Generation 257

Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Lead Scoring Lead Rank 257

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 3, 2013

As noted by my colleague Vince Koehler, Marketing has adopted new capabilities. These capabilities force Marketing to transition to new metrics for determining effectiveness. By registering for SBI’s Sales & Marketing Research Review , you''ll get the “ Top 15 Metrics to Track in 2014.” Referrals Generated. That’s a 5x bump.

Top of Funnel 326

Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Ideal Customer Profile Referrals 326

DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 10, 2018

Account-Based Marketing (ABM) is all the rage in the B2B sales and marketing world … and it’s evolving into something more : Account-Based Everything (ABE) aligns sales and marketing teams with multi-touch campaigns on target accounts. We based call cadence on engagement in our marketing automation tool. New to ABM?

Account Based Marketing 46

Account Based Marketing Account Video Decision Maker 46

No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Or rather, change them back —from digital marketing to relationship building. Seller access is a newly popular term for an old problem—the struggle to bypass gatekeepers and get meetings with high-level decision makers. For more on referral selling, tune into my new sales TV show— Back in the Black on The Sales Experts Channel.

Referrals 323

Referrals Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Generation 323

No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 24, 2019

In fact, that’s why many buyers shy away from gated marketing content.). You call a lead that marketing has “qualified.” Social channels can provide valuable insight into prospects and decision-makers, which has prompted some sales pros to wonder if cold calling is dead, replaced by so-called “smart” or “warm” calling.

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Cold Calling Referrals Sales Qualified Lead Lead Generation 269

Cincom Smart Selling

MARCH 6, 2025

The contemporary competitive market poses a formidable challenge to maintain profitability across multiple sales channels. Instead of relying on manual calculations and outdated spreadsheets, businesses can leverage CPQ to implement strategic pricing models that align with market conditions and customer expectations in real time.

Margin 48

Margin Channels Maximizer Lead Rank 48

Zoominfo

MARCH 4, 2021

Having a scoring and qualification system in place will weed out unfit leads and save sales and marketing teams time. Marketing teams typically have their process of scoring and qualifying leads (MQLs), but it may look different for sales teams (SQLs). Align with your marketing team for unified lead scoring and qualification.

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Sales Cycle Ideal Customer Profile Lead Scoring Lead Rank 246

DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 4, 2017

What this means is that sales, marketing, and service processes need to be based on the needs, wants, and expectations of customers. In particular, consideration needs to be given to how customers make their decisions, how they can utilize the products or services sold to them, and specific obstacles. Two things.

Sales Enablement 295

Sales Enablement Collateral Decision Maker Study 295

Zoominfo

JANUARY 26, 2021

Enterprise prospects are what salespeople and marketers like to refer to as “the whale” of all leads. And while the payoff is certainly worthwhile, enterprise lead generation does not come without a set of challenges that salespeople and marketers alike have to work to overcome. What Is Enterprise Lead Generation?

Lead Generation 189

Lead Generation Lead Scoring Lead Rank Enterprise 189

Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

In this context, I’m referring to companies that sell their products and services directly to their customer base rather than selling through retail or other sales channels (distributors, value-added resellers, system integrators, and so on). Are you speaking to decision makers or gatekeepers or influencers?

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Hiring Decision Maker Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead 222

SBI Growth

AUGUST 16, 2013

They have kept up with the market. They answer the buyer’s questions through a multiple channel approach. Still focused on reaching a decision maker and handling objections. What your rep did 5 years ago is obsolete. Agile Sales Talent – reps possess the competencies of the new A player. Must close the deal.

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Customer B2C Decision Maker Inside Sales 328

Zoominfo

MAY 21, 2020

A “BASHO email” is a fancy-pants name for a very personalized B2B email, usually addressed to a decision-maker at a high-value account. Hyper-personalized cold emails are the main tenant of account-based sales approach (related to account-based marketing, or ABM ). When your prospect is a decision-maker.

Examples 264

Examples Account Based Marketing Decision Maker Ideal Customer Profile 264

Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Leads are often categorized and managed through these different stages: Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs). Leads who have engaged with your marketing efforts, and are deemed ready for sales review and converting it to an opportunity. Sales Qualified Leads (SQLs).

Lead Rank 118

Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Marketing Qualified Lead Sales Qualified Lead 118

Zoominfo

MARCH 9, 2021

Marketing teams work in a cross-functional capacity to develop ongoing, omni-channel strategies that utilize a portfolio of tactics to connect value propositions to the right audience. Demand Gen = Sales + Marketing. Demand generation is a joint effort between a business’s marketing and sales organizations.

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Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Targets Demand Generation Paid Content 225

Lead411

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Understanding the SLED Market – B2G for Sales The SLED industry is vast and varied, comprising state governments, local municipalities, and educational institutions ranging from small rural schools to sprawling university systems. Use Multi-Channel Outreach: Combine email, phone, and direct mail campaigns to maximize engagement.

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B2G Marketing Government Intent Signal 52

Zoominfo

JANUARY 23, 2021

Yet, it’s also a challenging task for many salespeople — from hunting down contact information to getting a decision-maker on the phone. The key to a great sale is to identify your decision makers – learn how data can help. Let’s say the rep pitches a new prospect — a marketing director.

Ideal Customer Profile 264

Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting Cold Calling Decision Maker 264

Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

When your unveiling a new product, the last thing you want is to waste time and resources bringing a product to market where or when it’s unnecessary. So, here’s my step-by-step guide to building your own go-to-market strategy using the strategies I’ve implemented to build multiple companies throughout the years.

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Paid Content Top of Funnel Lead Rank Webinar Metrics 145